Hi friends. As we head into summer, we listen. We needed a little bit of time to regroup and plan for our live shows, which if you hadn't heard, are happening very soon. June 6th and Philadelphia, June 16th and Boston, June 22nd in New York. We're going to be doing it live for the first time in a long time.

Since 2019, baby, it's a whole different world now.

Truly is. We will be recapping a classic bachelor at episode featuring one of the all-time great bachelor's. We will be announcing that episode so you can do your homework ahead of time very soon.

And there will be laughter. There will be outrage. There will be questionable men's fashion.

Yeah, trust us. We rewatched the episode in question. There is questionable men's fashion. There are a lot of jewel times happening and not deployed.

If that gives you a hint as to time period, we'll be hanging out with special guests, including Kelsey McKinney, Jill Chinn and Arden Marine. And you know what? Hopefully all of you.

You can get tickets to those shows now at Love to See at Pod dot com slash LTSI dash live. That's also love to see it. Pod dot com and click the LTSI live tab trying to make it really easy for you.

But back to this podcast, which is not going away out of your feeds. Never fear. This week and next week, we will be re releasing two of our favorite romcom rewatches teen romances with a summary vibe just to like ease us into those warmer months.

These classic movies not only hold important places in the teen romance pantheon. They were just incredibly rich texts to dive into thematically, historically and emotionally.

Yes, emotionally for us and probably for a lot of you. So first up, this week, we're re-aering our episode on Greece featuring the brilliant Ali Barthwell. And this is just an episode very near and dear to our hearts.

It was one of the first romcom rewatches we did and Greece is a movie that really surprised us with how layered and self aware it was and what a rich history it had.

And it's also just a movie with enduring kitsch appeal. It's so fun to watch and also has surprisingly a lot to discuss. And we really, really enjoyed this episode. We hope you enjoy giving it maybe another listen.

I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray. And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse us.

And curse the patriarchy. We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them. But we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about the Madonna Horde dichotomy and hairpomade. It's week two of our Summer Love in Mini series and we are discussing the movie that made Summer Love in into not just an idea, but of course a timeless duet featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Greece.

Yes, joining us for today's Greece Club is Emmy award winning last week tonight writer, Vulture Bachelorette, and all around legend, Ali Barthwell. Ali, your presence as always is a gift. Thank you for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. Greece is the word. It's got group of together.

Oh my gosh, my thoughts exactly. Wow, you really nailed it. Where did you ever come up with such poetic language? It wasn't me. It was the Gibbs.

Oh gosh, I'm so excited to talk about Greece, which I realized as I was prepping for this episode that I had never seen. I thought that I had seen it. I think that I was maybe mixing up a couple specific numbers I'd seen with a stage version.

I saw by by birdie when I was in elementary school. I was a different show. Yeah, completely different show. So let's talk about this. When did each of you first see Greece?

I was definitely under the age of 10. Like when I first saw Greece, almost all of the references went over my head and I was just like, what a fun musical this is.

Like I took me like many watches and years to understand that there was like an accidental pregnancy sub-block. Like that just.

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